Three Political Bands Arguably More Bizarre Than Herman Cain’s Gospel Album

Like many of us, pizza tycoon and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain recorded a gospel album back in the 90s. Today it was posted on the Internet. Here, come have a listen.

It sounds like what you would imagine a not-very-good gospel album might sound like. Nothing more, nothing less. It is arguably better—or, fine, not discernibly worse—than the output of most other political music groups. Let’s review.

First, listen to the Second Amendments—Representatives Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Thad McCotter (R-MI) and former congressmen Dave Weldon (R-FL), Kenny Hulshof (R-MO), and Jon Porter (R-NV)—butcher “I Saw Her Standing There” at a Farm Aid concert. Despite production quality and outfits suggesting this video might date back to 1985 A.D., the performance took place in 2005.

The defunct Singing Senators had a particularly ignominious membership—half the starting lineup resigned or had planned to resign (Trent Lott and Larry Craig, respectively) following humiliating public scandals. The other two members, Jim Jeffords (I-VT) and John Ashcroft (R-MO), were in the Singing Senators, which is, shockingly, not Constitutionally mandated grounds for resignation.

Senator Orrin Hatch, a Mormon Republican from Utah, wrote this Hanukkah song and performed it for Tablet, a Manhattan-based Jewish online magazine. It’s not bad.